Day 4 Sunday Apr 18

This was a hard day to stay on course. A lot of distractions and a lot of opportunity to cheat on a diet that has not quite sunk in yet. Although I did get a couple of interesting opportunities to continue looking into eating Gluten free.

First of all, what I did for a workout: nothing. I was too busy from the time I got up to really get anything done. How often does your eldest child make her first communion, anyway? Right, so I knew that getting out of bed in the morning. Had a lot fo last minute cleaning and vacuuming to get done. (I guess I did have a sweating going when I was cleaning the house.... ok maybe that was something.) But no walk, no run, no lifting at the gym.

What did I eat? OK, going from breakfast, which was a coffee, again. It wasn't the best thing in the world, but there was very little food in the house. That, and I knew there was to be a lot more food later. Lunch was two veggie wraps - peppers, lettuce and tomato with some tziki sauce. They were pretty good. After Mass, came home to a early dinner which was salad, chicken-pasta casserole and veggies. Of course, the pasta has gluten in it, as did the cake that was presented to my daughter. I tried to go light on that.

After everyone left, I was pretty tired. However, I did get a chance to talk to my sister in law; she's a registered nutritionist. Some interesting ideas were exchanged about Celiac's disease adn the motivation for this project. I showed her this blog and she seem impressed. I also showed this blog to my mother, a no-nonsense Physiotherapist. She complimented the diet (espeically the veggie wraps I was eating) but did not like the workouts I was doing. She's worried about my health and I can respect that. Later, I got a chance to surf to iTunes and did a search on "gluten free" and "Celiac's Disease" and got a few hits.

I downloaded a lecture from three medical professionals and got it on my iPod Touch for the commute in tomorrow (Monday). I also got an App called "Gluten Free Living" and will be looking into that as time permits. Both were free on iTunes. There were a few others that were not so free, but left them alone for the time being.